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• Introduction--
• 1. The continuing need for a strong EU in the foreseeable future--
• 2. An assessment of the present situation of the EU--
• 3. First option: substantially revising the EU treaties--
• 4. Second option: continuing on the present path while developing further closer cooperation--
• 5. Third option: politically progressing towards a two-speed Europe--
• 6. Fourth option: legally building a two-speed Europe-- Conclusion.
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The European Union is in crisis. Public unease with the project, Euro problems and dysfunctional institutions give rise to the real danger that the European Union will become increasing irrelevant just as its member states face more and more challenges of a globalised world. Jean-Claude Piris, a leading figure in the conception and drafting of the EU's legal structures, tackles the issues head on with a sense of urgency and with candour. The book works through the options available in light of the economic and political climate, assessing their effectiveness. By so doing, the author reaches the (for some) radical conclusion that the solution is to permit 'two-speed' development: allowing an inner core to move towards closer economic and political union, which will protect the Union as a whole. Compelling, critical and current, this book is essential reading for all those interested in the future of Europe.
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• Transforming South-East Europe: A Challenge for Smart Power.- Greece-France: A New Alliance.- The Czech Presidency of the European Union: A Return to Roots.- Quo Vadis, Europe?.- The 'Promise' of the Lisbon Treaty: A Critical Reading.- Climate Change and Its Effects in Greece.- Union for the Mediterranean, or Nicolas Sarkozy's Voluntarism in International Relations.- Does Too Much Regulation Stifle Employment?.- Greek Ideals in the American Democracy.- The Miracle and the Defects.- Euro-Atlantic Relations Following the Election of Barack Obama in the United States.- The Forgotten Crisis: Rising Food Prices.- On the Road to Damascus: Towards a New European Policy on the Middle East?.- The Unrest of the 1960s: Common Grounds and Legacy.- The Return of Cultural Property to Its Countries of Origin.
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Constantine Arvanitopoulos and Konstantina E. Botsiou Europe at a Crossroads European uni?cation has rested on a dual premise. One part was the effort of the European nations to consolidate peace by overcoming the nationalism which had 1 twice drenched the continent in blood in the 20th century. War among West European states became unthinkable in the post-war era. The second part was the creation of a single European economy following the tremendous task of post-war 2 reconstruction and recovery. Over the years the achievement of economic stability was matched by initiatives that aimed to render Western Europe competitive on a global scale. The creation of the European Union (EU) in the 1990s through the Treaties of Maastricht (1992) and Amsterdam (1997), and later Nice (2001), which successively revised the founding Treaties of Rome (1957), was largely a response 3 to the challenge of globalisation. Integration 'rejuvenated' the nation state, thus creating the hybrid of the Euro- 4 pean welfare state, a mix of state-imposed stability and private initiative. Like its 1 Sforza, C. (1936). Europe and the Europeans: Community: Report A study in historical psych- ogy and international politics. London: George G. Harrap and Company. 2 Milward, A. S. (1984). The reconstruction of Western Europe 1945-1951. London: Routledge. Hogan, M. J. (1987). The Marshall plan: America, Britain, and the reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947-1954. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 3 Dyson, K. , & Featherstone, K. (1999).
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• About the website; Title page; Copyright page; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Timelines; List of Boxes; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Purpose of This Book; Why European Integration Matters; The Basic Structure of the EU; Plan of the Book and Learning Objectives; Part I: The History of European Integration;
• 1: The Idea of Europe: Foundations and Justifications for Unity; 1.0 Introduction: What and Where Is Europe?; 1.1 The Historical Background to Thinking about European Unity; 1.2 Early Ideas and Pioneers of Unity; 1.3 The Peace or Civilizing Justification for Unity.

• 1.4 The Prosperity Justification for Unity1.5 The Strengthening State Capacity Justification for Unity; 1.6 Concluding Summary; Guide to Further Reading; Web Resources;
• 2: The Institutional Development of European Integration, 1945-1973; 2.0 Introduction: Uniting for Peace; 2.1 The Struggle to Resolve Post-War Security and Economic Issues, 1945-1951; 2.2 The Creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in 1951; 2.3 The Functioning of the ECSC and the Attempt at Full Military and Political Union, 1951-1957; 2.4 The Continuing Pursuit of Economic Integration: Creating the EEC, 1957.

• 2.5 Overcoming the First Tests: The Common Agricultural Policy and the Empty Chair Crisis, 1957-19732.6 Concluding Summary; Guide to Further Reading; Web Resources;
• 3: The Institutional Development of European Integration, 1973-2010; 3.0 Introduction: The Widening and Deepening of European Integration; 3.1 Living with the First Enlargement Round and Preparing for the Next, 1973-1986; 3.2 Completing the Single Market as a Prelude to Monetary and Political Union, 1986-1992; 3.3 Designing European Unity for the Post-Cold War Era, 1992-2004.

• 3.4 From Constitutional Failure to the Lisbon Treaty, 2004-20103.5 Concluding Summary; Guide to Further Reading; Web Resources; Part II: Analyzing Integration;
• 4: The EU's Institutional Dynamics; 4.0 Introduction: The Functioning of the EU; 4.1 An Overview of the Dynamics of EU Policy-Making; 4.2 The Ordinary Legislative Procedure (OLP); 4.3 The Role of Interest Groups and Experts; 4.4 The Commission's Watchdog Role and the Importance of the CJEU; 4.5 Special Provisions for Foreign Policy; 4.6 Concluding Summary; Guide to Further Reading; Web Resources.

• 5: EU Policy-Making in Action: Major EU Policies5.0 Introduction: The EU's Major Policy Areas; 5.1 The EU Budget; 5.2 The Euro; 5.3 The Single Market; 5.4 Social and Environmental Policy; 5.5 Justice and Citizenship; 5.6 Enlargement; 5.7 Concluding Summary; Guide to Further Reading; Web Resources;
• 6: The EU in Comparative Perspective; 6.0 Introduction: Why Compare?; 6.1 The EU Compared with Federal States; 6.2 The EU Compared with International Organizations; 6.3 The sui generis Interpretation; 6.4 Concluding Summary; Guide to Further Reading; Web Resources.

This is a systematic, up-to-date exploration of the politics of European integration that includes balanced coverage of the strengths and weaknesses of the European Union. Examines European integration as a contested political process that continues to divide and inspire nations, citizens, and politiciansProvides students with the analytical tools to consider why the EU functions as it currently does, whether the EU is sufficiently democratic, the politics behind EU legislation, debates over foreign policy, proposals for institutional reform, and the Eurozone sovereign.

• Europe 2030 : global power or hamster on a wheel? / Joschka Fischer
• The limits of the European Union in
• 2030: a best-case scenario / José Cutileiro
• The accidental constitution / Joseph H.H. Weiler
• The European economic model in 2030 / Andrew Hilton
• Europe as a global actor in 2030 / Charles Grant
• Europe and the United States in 2030 / Hubert Védrine
• Russia in 2030 : a more attractive partner for the EU? / Oksana Antonenko
• European Islam in the year 1451 / Jonathan Laurence.

The European Union is the most successful supranational organization in history. It has reconciled former enemies, established a single market and a common currency, and reintegrated Central and Eastern Europe into the West. Yet the EU remains unsatisfying to its members and its partners. An economic giant but a political pygmy, it seems hamstrung by bureaucracy and a lack of connection to European publics. In Europe 2030 , distinguished authors predict what the European Union will look like twenty years from new. A range of views is presented, foreseeing everything from slower growth and diminished power to actions that would make the EU a more vigorous, influential world play. Contributors include Oksana Antonenko (International Institute for Strategic Studies), Jose Manuel Durao Barroso (European Commission), Jose Cutileiro (former secretary general, Western European Union), Joschka Fischer (former minister of foreign affairs, Germany), Charles Grant (Center for European Reform), Andrew Hilton (Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation), Jonathan Laurence (German Marshall Fund, Boston College and Brookings Institution), Rui Chancerelle de Machete (consititutional and administrative attorney), Hubert Vedrine (former minister of foreign affairs, France), and Joseph H.H. Weiler (New York University).
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• Improvising : the euro crisis
• Negotiating : the Ukraine crisis
• Setting boundaries : the refugee crisis
• Uprising : the Atlantic crisis
• Entr'acte : acting in time
• Two foundations
• Directors and actors
• The opposition takes the stage
• Epilogue.

This book investigates the new challenges confronted by the EU as an international actor within the context of recent economic and political developments, with particular attention to common foreign and security policies; the appraisal of development-aid policies; EU sanctions in the post-Soviet space, as harder instruments complementing the toolbox of the EU "soft power" polity; preferential trade agreements as a key element of EU external trade policy; external relations of the EU; international aspects of the monetary policy of the ECB in the context of the financial and sovereign debt cris.

• Part I The European Union at Crossroads - General Issues on Treaties' Revision:
• 1. A New Revision of the EU Treaties after Lisbon? by Lucia Serena Rossi.-
• 2. Parameters of Constitutional Development - The Fiscal Compact In Between EU and Member State Constitutions by Leonard F.M. Besselink.-
• 3. The Allocation of Powers/Competences between the EU and the Member States - What Can We Learn From Pre-emption in the United States? by Paul Luif.-
• 4. Solidarity, Flexibility and the Euro-Crisis - Where Do Principles Fit In? by Alison McDonnell.-
• 5. EU Loyalty after Lisbon - An Expectation Gap to Be Filled? by Federico Casolari.- Part II Fundamental Rights after Lisbon:
• 6. The Charter of Fundamental Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union - A First Assessment of the Interpretation of the Charter's Horizontal Provisions by Jean-Paul Jacque.-
• 7. The Phenomenon of Reverse Discrimination - An Anomaly in the European Constitutional Order? by Peter Van Elsuwege.-
• 8. Access to Health Care in the Post-Lisbon Era and the Genuine Enjoyment of the EU Citizens' Rights by Giacomo Di Federico.- Part III Revisiting the EU External Relations:
• 9. Revisiting the Lisbon Treaty's Constitutional Design of EU External Relations by Jan Wouters and Thomas Ramopoulos.-
• 10. Coherence vs. Conferred Powers? The Case of the European External Action Service by Mauro Gatti.-
• 11. Article 8 TEU and the Revision of the European Neighbourhood Policy by Michele Comelli.- Part IV Conclusions:
• 12. Conclusions by Paolo Mengozzi.
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The book contains a collection of high-quality academic and expert contributions dealing with the central question of whether the Lisbon Treaty needs further revision. Due to the difficulties European Union actors have encountered in implementing the Lisbon Treaty's reform and the inadequacies of the current legal framework brought to light by post-Lisbon practice, the volume focuses on possible innovations and functional approaches to improve the Union's response to the challenges confronting it. In doing so, the volume first takes a horizontal approach to the Treaty' revision and considers some constitutional features showing the interaction between the EU and its Member States (namely, the parameters of constitutional developments, the allocation of competences, the principles of solidarity and loyal cooperation). Then, the focus shifts to the question of fundamental rights within the EU's constitutional framework, one of the most relevant innovations of the Lisbon Treaty being the incorporation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights into the Union's primary law. The last part of the volume is devoted to another domain significantly reshaped by the Lisbon reform, namely, the Union's external dimension. ECJ Advocate General Paolo Mengozzi's conclusions highlight the common themes emerging from the various contributions, stressing the need for a more general supranational approach to the political crisis the Union is going through. The content of this book will be of great value to academics, students, judges, practitioners and all others interested in the legal discourse on the progressive development of the European Union legal order.
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• Part I. The Question of European Modernity
• 1. Introduction: Modernity - Europe - European Modernity
• 2. What is Europe? Part II. Key Features of European Modernity Reconsidered
• 3. Europe's Hesitation with Democracy
• 4. The Industrial and Market Revolution in Global Perspective: The Colonial Heritage and the Social Question
• 5. European Religion: The Christians and the Others
• 6. The European: Atom - Individual - Person - Subject? PART III Transformations of European Modernity
• 7. The Axial Age and Modern Europe
• 8. The Great Transformation: Organized Modernity for Welfare and Warfare, 1870s - 1960s
• 9. The New Great Transformation: The Global Challenge of Historical injustice and Movements for Collective Self-determination: 1960s - The present Epilogue Bibliography Index.
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It is often taken for granted that modernity emerged in Europe and diffused from there across the world. This book questions that assumption and re-examines the question of European modernity in the light of world history. Bo Strath and Peter Wagner re-position Europe in the global context of the 19th and 20th centuries. They show that Europe is less modern than has been assumed, and modernity less European and thus decentre Europe in a way that makes room for a wider historical perspective. Adopting a thematic structure, the authors reconceive the idea of European modernity in relation to key topics such as democracy, capitalism and market society, individual autonomy, religion and politics. European Modernity is an important addition to the literature that will be of interest to all students and scholars of modern European history.
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• Foreword / Franco Frattini
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Introduction : defining the frontiers of Europe from a transatlantic perspective / Federiga Bindi and Irina Angelescu
• 2. A brief history of EU enlargements / Federiga Bindi
• PART ONE : THE STATE OF EU NEGOTIATIONS AND ENLARGEMENT PERSPECTIVES
• 3. EU enlargement policy : from success to fatigue / Ferdinando Nelli Feroci
• 4. EU enlargement : benefits and obstacles / John Peet
• 5. The European Neighborhood Policy : geopolitics or value export? / Christoffer Ko̊lvraa and Jan Ifverson
• PART TWO : IMMIGRATION, TERRORISM, INTERNAL SECURITY : RELATED FOR UNRELATED PHENOMENA?
• 6. One frontier, many boundaries? European Union migration policies / Irina Angelescu
• 7. Terrorism and immigration in the European Union : strangers in the night / Gilles de Kerchove
• 8. European Union enlargement, violent radicalization, and terrorism / Jean-Luc Marret
• 9. Immigration and security in Europe : a look at the Italian case / Umberto Melotti
• PART THREE : ENERGY POLICIES : BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND POWER POLITICS
• 10 The challenge of the European Union's energy policy and regulation / Alessandro Ortis
• 11 Translating energy strategy into policy with EU enlargement / Massimo Gaiani
• PART FOUR : THE NEW FRONTIERS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR EUROPE
• 12. Development policy in a changing Europe : more donors, new challenges / Maurizio Carbone
• 13. The Euro crisis and the new economic governance / Luca Einaudi
• 14. European Union-China relations in light of possible future EU enlargements / Giovanni B. Andornino
• PART FIVE : A NEW SECURITY ARCHITECTURE?
• 15. A saturated alliance? Assessing the prospects for further NATO enlargement / Jan Techau
• 16. Imperatives of constructing a new security system in the Euro-Atlantic region : the Russian perspective / Mark Entin
• 17 The EU concept of security from a U.S. perspective / Kurt Volker
• PART SIX : DEMOCRACY PROMOTION AND THE RULE OF LAW
• 18. The rise and stall of democratic enlargement / Amichai Magen
• 19. European-Latin relations in the Twenty-First century / Joaquín Roy
• 20. Conclusion : the European Union should again be "open for business" / Federiga Bindi and Irina Angelescu.

"Investigates the ramifications of enlarging the size of the European Union, including the effects on policies relating to energy, immigration, security, democracy and the rule of law, and economic development, and how a larger EU would affect NATO and relations with China, Latin America, Russia, and the United States"--Provided by publisher.